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MSN Encarta - Pericles (402 words) |
 | bc), Athenian statesman, so influential in Athenian history that the period of his power is called the Age of Pericles. |
| Throughout his life he was conspicuous for his dignity and aloofness, but his eloquence, sagacity, uprightness, and patriotism won recognition from the majority of citizens. |
| Under the Delian League, established in defense against the Persians, the Athenians created a great naval empire and embraced, as equal or subject allies, nearly all the larger islands of the Aegean Sea and many cities to the north. |
| Phormio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (267 words) |
| Later in 432 BC he shared command of the Athenian fleet with Thucydides and Hagnon against Samos. |
| In 430 BC he led the Athenian fleet sent to help Ambracia and Acarnania at the Battle of Potidaea. |
| Phormio defeated the Corinthian fleet at the Battle of Naupactus in 429 BC, trapping them in the narrow strait and capturing twelve of their ships. |
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